are both dominating the parties divide heading into the midterms. and former homeland security secretary jeh johnson will be here to discuss the mar-a-lago document fight and the january 6th investigations. but we begin in london with nbc s molly hunter, msnbc royal commentator daisy mcandrew. molly, let s talk about what we ve seen from the royal family today as the citizens throughout that country are finally getting their say, their chance to say goodbye to queen elizabeth in person. yeah, andrea, that s exactly right. the coffin today is moving from the family to the people. we are actually across from westminster hall. the queen is lying in state just across the river from where i am right now. and people line the streets of london for that procession. it was incredibly moving, and daisy can speak to being outside of buckingham palace when everyone went by. everyone was huddled around their mobile phones to watch that procession. police estimate between 700,000 and 1
a judge in florida saying there are portions that could be unsealed and giving the doj a week to explain everything that they say needs to be kept secret. but will it be page after page of black redactions? how will we know? we don t know until we see it. that as a justice department lawyer says the affidavit contains, and i quote here, substantial grand jury information and warns releasing it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. but the judge did release several never-before-seen documents today including the motion where prosecutors argue that they needed to keep their search warrant secret because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed. there are some more really intriguing clues in one of those documents. more on that in just a moment. but you ve got to wonder just how much the former president actually wants the full affidavit to be released. because his lawyer sitting right there in court today didn t sa
documents that were released today. but even that gives us more information about where things are headed, and that s why i think, no matter how redacted the release of this affidavit is gonna be, take the first thing on their. the espionage act. the 18 usc seven 93, we will all were wondering, i rode along piece, what angle are they taking? well, they ve just stated their theory of the case, one, that they might or might not argue to the jury. he retained government documents. well, don, if i go to the white house and help myself to property that s in the oval office, and i take it with me, i m retaining government property. that s a crime. and these are boxes and boxes and boxes. so, we re already learning more. okay, he says he wants this information out there. do you think this is going to be helpful to him? i do not. i think it s going to tell the story of why the government, they had to put the details to convince a judge that there was probable cause of crime. is
million dollars a day for at least two days following the fbi search. and he s continue to send out dozens of emails and text to supporters. and then there s our cnn exclusive tonight. 18 top trump administration officials saying, the claim from the former president and his allies that he had a so-called standing order to declassify any order he took from the oval office. they say, this is nonsense. he had a standing order, there s the would ve been looking for. that the documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. donald trump issued sweeping declassification orders on multiple occasions. 18 former top trump officials several one senior official calls it, and i am quoting here, bs. that is not my word. another senior official called it total nonsense. former chief of staff john kelly said, another quote, nothing approaching in order that foolish was ever given. look, you cannot just decla
engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b